Dewey, Cheatem & Howe

Some background on one of the world's most famous companies: Dewey, Cheatem & Howe.

Dewey, Cheatem & Howe is the gag name of a fictional law firm or fictional accounting firm, used in several parody settings. For example, a popular Three Stooges poster features the Stooges as bumbling members of such a firm (although the name was never used in an actual episode, "Dewey, Burnham, and Howe" was used). Similarly, mention of a firm by this name is employed by comic figures such as Johnny Carson, Groucho Marx, and Daffy Duck.
The name pokes fun at the perceived propensity of some lawyers to take advantage of their clients (as in the hypothetical question, "Do we cheat them, and [if so] how?"). Many law professors perversely work "Dewey, Cheatem & Howe" into the hypotheticals presented on final exams, especially in professional responsibility and legal ethics courses. The name is also used more broadly as a placeholder for any hypothetical law firm.

Their office, shown here, is in Cambridge, Massachusetts.